The billboard slogan of Jiaziyuan subway station is "98% high school players are defeated here and then become stronger". Groups of flat-headed teenagers appeared on the streets of Japan on bicycles. They each carry a big backpack, and their faces are hard to hide sweat, laughing and playing, full of endless youth luxuries. They are Japanese wild ball teenagers aiming at Koshien. Wild ball means baseball in Japanese. Koshien is the abbreviation of Han Xin Koshien Baseball Field. It is located in Nishimiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Kansai, and is the hometown of the Japanese professional baseball team Han Xinhu. But for this group of wild ball teenagers, Koshien is a holy place for them to shed their blood and pursue their dreams, and Koshien in summer (short for Japan National High School Baseball Championship) is their youth home. Wild ball junior Koshien "98% of high school players are defeated here and then become stronger." This is the billboard slogan of Koshien subway station. The percentage of "98%" in advertising language is not nonsense. The Koshien Summer Finals will be held in Koshien Baseball Field, and the competition system will adopt a quota system (Tokyo and Hokkaido each have two quotas due to more schools).

The total number of teams participating in the summer Koshien preliminaries can reach more than 4,000 each year, but only 49 teams can enter the finals. This means that if a team wants to set foot on the black land of Koshien (the average baseball field in Japan uses red soil, and the baseball field in Koshien is black land), it must win the regional preliminaries before it can qualify. Furthermore, in summer, Koshien adopts the single elimination system, which means that you can't advance to Koshien if you lose a game. Koshien is particularly hot in summer. This year, as the 20 18 High School Baseball Conference is the100th commemorative meeting of Japanese high school baseball, the organizer Asahi Shimbun fully publicized the touching moments of previous conferences before the conference began. After the meeting, the media also searched for "moving" moments according to various materials in the database.

The last "dark horse" appeared and saved the attention of the meeting. Jin Zunong, a neglected public agricultural school in Akita Prefecture, made it through all the way, defeated several traditional "strong schools" one after another and finally reached the final. Only nine players in this school's baseball team can play, and only one real pitcher is injured and can't play, but they reached the finals on behalf of the remote rural areas in northeastern Japan, which made Japan boil all over the country, and the main pitcher Yoshida became the "God of Koshien" sought after by all parties. Before the final, almost everyone hoped that they could beat Osaka Tongyin High School in the final and write a new miracle for the century-old high school baseball. Therefore, a team that can make it to the final of Koshien said that only by not losing a goal from the regional preliminaries can it compete with the other 48 teams.

There are 50 teams, but there is only one champion, and the winning rate is only 2%, so "98% of high school players are defeated here". Koshien in summer has a long history and tradition. The competition began when 19 15 junior high school won the baseball championship sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The first game was held at Toyoda Baseball Field in Osaka. Since then, the history of Japanese high school baseball league has begun. So far, Koshien has been closed for four years, so this year (20 18) is the100th summer Koshien.